Word of new Arctic oil is encouraging but Alaska shouldn’t bank on it
The announcement of new oil discovered on the North Slope in recent weeks – in fact, several in the past few months – is really heartening, and in two ways. First, it dramatically shows there’s a lot of oil on the Slope, more than we previously believed. Second, state legislators didn’t take it as an excuse to once again duck and run from the painful decisions voters send them to Juneau to make.
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